Today was a great day! I was able to get over 4 hours of practicing. It felt really good to get so much done. Piano and school are going great so far! I had my first test in my piano pedagogy class and it went really well. It was on editions of different music books for different composers. I have had two tests in keyboard harmony and have done really well on those also. Both of the tests were for scales, chords, and the Bach Inventions we are learning.

Yesterday, we had our first UMTA meeting. I am the secretary for the Northern UMTA chapter. We had a guest speaker come and she spoke on teaching piano. She talked about how our main goal during a lesson is to teach our students how to practice. A few quotes she gave are:

"In the practice room, the student is the teacher."
"What I hear I forget, what I see I remember, what I do I understand." - Confucius
"Practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent."

I learned a lot of new ways to teach my students how to learn pieces quickly and effectively. I can't wait until I get to apply what I learn and start teaching!